You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEYou cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEGreat lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
CESARE PAVESEWill power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEWe must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
CESARE PAVESEThe slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESEI am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
CESARE PAVESEBut all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
CESARE PAVESEOne does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
CESARE PAVESEFrom someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESEWhen writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEA decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
CESARE PAVESENot believing in anything is also a religion .
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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